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Lightwell7 wrote:What's the rate of healing for Surgeons, Nurses, Priests, and Field Hospitals?

Field Hospitals, Nurses and Surgeons heal units at a rate of 10 hitpoints/s, while Priests, by default, heal units at a rate of 6 hitpoints/s. Some Religions and religious improvements may improve the healing rate. Animism, for example, doubles the default healing rate, and one of its enabled techs (Spiritual Healing) doubles it even further.

Is there any benefit to using a nurse over a surgeon (beyond the spawning cost)?

Basically, the only advantage Nurses have over Surgeons are their reduced Coin cost when compared with the latter (100 Coin against 300 Coin, respectively). However, the Nurse can become somewhat less efficient once you research "Wash Hands" and "Antisepsis" at the Hospital, which increases Surgeon healing rate by 20% and 40%, respectively.

PS: Do Miners benefit from gathering techs

Yes.

and how much faster are they than normal villagers?

They actually gather slower than Pilgrims, which is quite surprising. The Miner gathers 0.5625 Coin/s, while the Pilgrim gathers 0.6 Coin/s.

Huh. Would it be out of place for me to request a Miner buff or instructions on how to modify the Miner's gathering rate? I'm fine enough with Nurses, as they really just exist as a free way to give Americans the Hospital, but Miners being slower than pilgrims seems out of place. (Although, it would explain the slowness of my Gold rush deck.)

"You're assuming three people who barely have the resources to manage three boxes will get a telescope and watch from atop a building"

Got it. It was called, "protoy.xml.bak".
It says the gathering rate from "Abstractmine" is "0.7500000".
Is this the actual rate, or is there an additional calculation?

It also says that Plantations are considered separately, yet this unit somehow manages to gather from them. His only listed ability has him gathering from mines, so I'm a bit uncertain about things right now.

"You're assuming three people who barely have the resources to manage three boxes will get a telescope and watch from atop a building"